Isaiah 60:18, “Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, Neither wasting or destruction within your borders”
My dearly beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you all in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The auspicious word of the Lord is taken from the book of Isaiah 60:18, “Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, Neither wasting or destruction within your borders”.
In the above verse, the Lord says two things. There will be no violence in your life and destruction will no longer enter your borders. Hearing this some of you may be happy since you have suffered a lot of violence in your life during the past.
In the Bible we can see, a mother came to Jesus and pleaded to heal her daughter who had been immensely troubled by an evil spirit and had an unclean spirit. She couldn’t bear to see her daughter suffering so much. The woman had great faith in the Lord. She strongly believed that if she approached the Lord Jesus Christ then her daughter would be healed. She came and fell at Jesus feet and she asked Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. Jesus said to her, “it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” And she answered and said to Him, “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” Jesus was astonished by her faith.” Then He said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment. And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter was healed.
Today you too might be saying, “Lord I can’t bear to see my son suffering.” I can’t bear to see my daughter suffer at the hands of her in-laws. Or you might say, Lord, I can’t bear to see my husband suffering. The husband might say, “Lord I can’t bear to see my wife suffering.” In case you are saying like the woman who came to the Lord and said, “Lord I can’t bear to see the sufferings of my daughter”. The Lord was touched by the adamant faith of the woman and healed her daughter. Likewise, God is going to set you free from all the sufferings and there will be no destruction found in your borders. This indicates that during the past, you had suffered much destruction and loss. Death, famine, and poverty. But hereafter these will not repeat in your life. You had suffered enough. God is therefore giving you assurance regarding this. Moreover, you will recover all that you had lost. Many things could have been destroyed because of your rivalries or because of your negligence. But God is saying, that you shall recover all that you had lost in your life. Good days are ahead of you.
Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for speaking to us through the verse “Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders”. Many of my children are broken-hearted, as they had experienced much violence in their life. All violence that they had been enduring will come to an end. Lord help my children to dwell in peaceful habitation. Help them to recover all that they had lost in their life as said in verse “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm”. According to the years of their destruction, honor them and make them live in peace. Descend upon them in a mighty manner and let them enjoy peace and prosperity.
In Jesus’ Name we pray.
Amen.
Matthew 25:21, “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
My dearly beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The blessed word that the Lord has given for you today is from the book of Matthew 25:21, “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
From the above context we learn about being faithful in few things. If you are faithful in few things then God will make you in charge of many things. God is looking at you this morning and saying, you have been faithful in few things. So I will put you in charge of many things. May be some of you are saying, “I have very little. What can I do with the little I have. ” The Lord is going to make an increase in your life. This message as such has come to confirm God’s Blessings upon you, in this New Year. Although you have very little with you the one who is within you, is much greater. And He does great things in your life. It is said that one can identify who you are, by the friends you hold. Or what sort of books you read. If you are in Christ then people will identify you as a child of God.
While making a covenant with Moses the Lord told him that people will see the works of God through him. He said, “The people with whom you live will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord will do, in the midst of you. “God used ordinary and stammering Moses to perform mighty works among the people of Egypt and Israel. Moses struck the rock and water gushed out from the rock. The Red Sea was split in two by his rod. When he struck the rock water sprang forth. When the people asked for meat God sent a wind in the lower parts of the sea, and caused many number of quails on the shores of the sea. Thus Moses performed mighty miracles and wonders in the midst of the people of Israel, and it was said that there would not be another prophet like Moses after him.
Moses had just a rod or staff in his hand, with which the great and awesome God used him to perform many great miracles. Moses had very little in his hand but the Lord who was with him caused him to do a great many things. God was his back up or support. In the same way to those of you who have very little with you, God will be your back up and help you achieve great things in your life. God will do unimaginable things for you. All you need to exercise is your strong faith in God. Don’t trust man or expect help from unworthy people. Some will say he became great because of this person or that person. He gained name and fame, because of my friend, or my uncle, or my cousin who is abroad. But in future God says, He will be your strong support. He will be your backup. So put your trust in the Lord. For the Bible says, “They who put their trust in the Lord shall prosper.” God Bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Dear Lord, we thank You for telling us that you will be our backup. As you were with Moses an ordinary, stammering man, and performed many miracles, please be with us also and help us to see and achieve great things in our lives. May others see the work of God in our lives.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
1 peter 2:9, “You are a holy nation and His own special people”.
My dearly beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, I greet and bless you all in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The new auspicious word of the Lord, is taken from the book of 1 peter 2:9, “You are a holy nation and His own special people”.
My dear children of God, today Jesus is looking at you and saying that you are his children. What joyous news this is. Just think about it for a moment. Instead of saying that you are a President’s relative, or a Prime Minister’s or a Chief Minister’s son or daughter, how great it would be to associate yourself as the child of the creator of the whole universe. You are a child of God. You are bought by His own blood. He has therefore given you the privilege of calling him Abba Father. What else could be better, in the world, than this relationship? Some might say, Though I have my husband, I live like a widow. Though I have my parents yet I live like an orphan. In case you are saying this, my dear children of God, today you must realize that God has given you the privilege of calling God as your Father, and so you are the children of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Since you have a father to care for you, hereafter you should not have any worries or fear of being alone. You should have faith and trust that you belong to Jesus. And that you are His special people. If you have such good thoughts in you, then your weariness and fear will disappear. And you will regain the confidence to move forward in life.
Not only that, you need to be a holy nation as the Lord your God is Holy. God is ever praised by the angels in heaven, as “Holy Holy, Lord God All Mighty.” Children of such a holy God should be a holy nation unto Him. So, to inherit the quality of being called a child of God you need holiness. So do good things in your life. Learn to live according to his precepts. Help people who are in need of help. Help those who are poor and needy with alms and goods. Being Holy is not a difficult thing. If you put it into practice, then it would be easy to live a life pleasing unto God. Avoid going to unnecessary places. Then you can save yourself from unnecessary troubles. Avoid speaking vain things. Always think that you are a divine child of God. Check yourself if you are doing the right thing.
In the Bible, we can see that God out of His own good will and desire made Saul the king of Israel but later God regretted having made him the king. His heart was hurt immensely. Because instead of asking God’s counsel. He went after a witch of Endor, as he wanted to use a medium to communicate with him from the dead prophet Samuel. God didn’t like his behaviour and was very disheartened. Likewise, God shouldn’t regret about you in this manner. He shouldn’t say, “Well I don’t know why I created him/her. Why did I purchase my child by shedding my precious blood? See to that you make the Lord happy always about yourself. From today there should be a change, in your looks, in your talk, in your practice of life, in your thought, in your belief, in your behaviour, then you will receive the grace of God, to be known as the children of God. Jesus will redeem you from darkness and sin, into his marvellous light, and gather you into his own relationship, as his own child.
When we take little steps to lead a Holy and acceptable life before God, He will begin to intervene and do great things for you.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, thank you for speaking to us through the verse “You are a holy nation and His own special people”. We humbly submit ourselves before You. I pray and bless my children that they may, not speak words of unfaithfulness and the Holy Spirit will also guide them to lead a life pleasing to you. You said, “If you believe you shall see the glory of God.” Let them say “Jesus is my Father ’every moment of their life and let their strong faith in Jesus, cause many miracles to happen in their lives.
In Jesus Name We Pray.
Amen.
Psalm 139:24, “See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting”.
My Dearly beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you all in the name of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The psalmist says in Psalm 139:24, “See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting”.
Dear children of God, it is very important to walk with God in every situation of our life. Do you go to Him only with your struggles and agony or can you boldly declare that you live in Christ? The Bible says, “To this, you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.” (1 Peter 2:21).
Here as Apostle Paul states, the experience of walking with Jesus is keeping Him as our example, following His footsteps and living with an attitude of gratitude no matter what we face. The first step we must take to walk with Jesus is to accept Him as our personal saviour. You should become deeply rooted in Him and be built in Him. “As you, therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.” (Colossians 2:6,7). According to this verse when we walk with Jesus, we will be established in our faith and flourish! Do not be worried!
Secondly, to walk with Jesus we must not only daily read His word but also meditate, obey, and apply it in our lives. Jesus says “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” (John 14:23).
Yes, when we keep God’s word, our heavenly Father will always be pleased with us. He will come and dwell amongst us and lead us in our spiritual path. Be strong!
Dear children of God. instead of idolizing and imitating man, let us submit to follow the footsteps of Jesus all our lives. Only then will you be able to lead a victorious Christian life and walk with Jesus. Will you surrender your lives starting to walk with Jesus? Let us pray.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Father, we want to live a life pleasing in Your sight, so we submit ourselves into Your hands. Accept us Lord and guide us in Your path. Lord, we accept You as our personal saviour. We yield ourselves completely to the plans that you have for our lives. Thank You, Lord, for going before us in and making every crooked path straight. Help us be rooted in You so that Your presence that was with Enoch, Moses, and Joseph will always be with us. We commit ourselves into Your loving hands.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
”When a man’s ways please the Lord. He makes even his enemies, be at peace with him”.
My dearly beloved in Christ, I greet and bless you all in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Today’s word of God for you is taken from the book of Proverbs 16:7, ”When a man’s ways please the Lord. He makes even his enemies, be at peace with him”.
My dear children of God, it is said in the verse that God would make even your enemies be at peace with you when your ways please the Lord. Which means God will make your enemies become your friends. And when your enemies become your friend then there will be no one to harm you. There is a way told in the Bible, as to how you can make your enemies become your friends. The Bible says, your ways need to please the Lord. When your life is pleasing unto the Lord then it is the responsibility of God to not allow any enemies in your life. And in case you have enemies then God will handle them. God will deal with them, God will make them friendly toward you.
As proof, we can read in the Bible, about a man called Jacob. He was a man longing for anointing. God also loved him much. He was a hard worker. He was a man pleasing unto God. In this circumstance, his own uncle, Laban with a large group of people was on his way to attack Jacob who was traveling to Canaan the land of his fathers. Jacob served his uncle for nearly 20 years, and now he wanted to return to his homeland. But his uncle Laban, planned to trouble him and his sons. He wanted to grab all the wealth and possession; Jacob was taking along with him. Laban did not have the heart to let go of him peacefully instead he wanted to cause confusion and chaos to Jacob. Laban was chasing his nephew Jacob who had served him with much fear and was faithful to him all these years. He chased Jacob with a plan to harm him. But knowing the mind of Laban, God, the previous night met Laban and warned him not to hurt Jacob in any way. God instructed Laban to make a peaceful covenant with Jacob and not to trouble him or cause confusion.
God spoke to Laban directly and warned him not to attack Jacob. Laban made a peaceful covenant with Jacob and reconciled with him and continued a friendly relationship. If God did not intervene then Laban would have harmed Jacob. He blamed Jacob had earned much by his cunningness and so he wanted to take back all the hard-earned possessions from Jacob. He was jealous of Jacob because he became a very rich man. So, we see that God himself intervened and spoke to Laban in order to avoid further controversy.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, so now looking at our situation, we might have some enemies in our workplace. And sometimes Satan himself would have caused certain cunning plans against you to spoil your life. And we further see how Satan through some people begins to do black magic and witchcraft and sorcery, against your family or your children and cause trouble to you. We need to put a full stop to all this evil practice. If you should avoid being troubled through witchcraft, sorcery, and black magic by your enemies then you should learn to lead a life pleasing unto God. Only then you will be able to lead a quiet and undisturbed life.
My dear children How do we please God? Accepting the gift of salvation, believing in Him that God will fulfill the promises He makes, fearing Him, and obeying His commandment also when your good deeds and your ways of lifestyle are pleasing unto God, then all your enemies will become at peace with you and in case you are under pressure because of witchcraft, and sorcery. Then I pray in the name of Jesus all such evil things cast upon you, will be nullified. So, the only decision we need to make is to do that which is pleasing in his sight. Make a decision that you will live a life that is acceptable to God.
Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for speaking to us through the verse “When a man’s ways please the Lord. He makes even his enemies, be at peace with him. Dear Lord, you have spoken to my children through a very good life-giving word. We thank You because You intervened in the life of my children to tell them how they ought to live a life pleasing unto you. You said that when our ways please the Lord then even our enemies will be at peace with us. May God enable all those reading this message to apply your word in their life so that that they may live in peace and harmony. I bless my children that they may live happily without the interference of their enemies.
In Jesus Name we pray.
Amen.
